Ruled type-form and method of producing same.



A. GPSTEVENSON.

RULED TYPE FORM AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME.

APPLICATION FILED OCT- II, I9I4.

Patented J an. 18, 1916.

UNITED s'rA'rEs PATENT oi rron.

ASHTON G. STEVENSON. OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO CHICAGO LINO-TABLER COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

/ RULED TYPE-FORM AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 18, 1916.

Original application filed June 17, 1912, Serial No. 704,142. Divided and this application filed October 17, 1914. SerialNo. 867,180.

To all "whom it may concern Be it known'that I, ASHTON G. STEVEN- SON, a citizen of the United States. and a tion and in which:

resident of Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ruled Type-Forms and Methods of Producing Same, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to ruled type forms and has particular reference to an improved system of applying so called lino-tablerrulcs'to type forms.

The object of my invention-is to cheapen the application of vertical rules to type forms; to eliminate the necessity for the use of special matrices in ruling type forms with ruling members adapted to be placed upon the upper flat surface of the form.

This application being a division of my copending application for patent on rule broach, Serial No. 704,142, filed June 17,

My invention consists .in. the improvements herein described and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

My izvention will be more readily understood by reference to the accompanying drawings forming apart of this specifica- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a ruled type form illustrating a preferred embodiment of my invention; Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary vertical section of the type form on the line 22 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a wherein the rule holding lugs are disclosed as being bendable over the inclined sides of .'-the rule to hold the rule in position upon the form. It is also an improvement upon the method of ruling type forms disclosed in United States Patent No. 1,049,165. issued to me Dec. 31, 1912, and wherein rigid lugs are provided upon the upper surface of linotvpe slugs between which the rule is adapted to be clamped when the form is locked in a chase. p

This present application relates particularly to the method of ruling type forms with rules which are of a height adapted to be placed upon the'level top surface of type forms built up of linotype slugs having openings produced-in rigid projections rising from this level top surface said openings having inwardly inclined or overhanging walls. In other words said slugs are provided with openings between rigid lugs, the tops of which openings are contracted and which are adapted to receive and re-. tain rules the lower parts or bases of'which are wider than their printing edges. In fact this present application refers particularly to the method of ruling type forms wherein so called linotype rules are held upon the upper flat surface of type forms by means of rigid overhanging rule holdingprojections.

In said drawings A represents a type form made up of a plurality of linotype slugs B adapted to print lines and some are provided with: non printing projections 12 and I) which do not rise to the printing surface of the form but each of these several projections whether printing or non printing are provided with rule receiving openings to receive the lino-table! rules C. The rule C is preferably of a triangular shape as shown, the upper edge being adapted to print a 'line and being relatively narrow, the base 0 of the rule being relatively broad and the sides a being inclined. That is the sides are outwardly flared and this rule is adapted to be held in position upon the upper level top surface of the form by the overhanging sides 6- of the rule receiving openings 6. The

projections which are provided with the rule receiving openings as shown may havedif ferent' shapes depending upon the means by which they are, formed but whatever shape these projections have, the one characters istic which is common to them all is that each is pierced with a rule receiving opening having inwardly inclined sides and providing an opening which is narrower at its top than at its base, the base thereof being subv pushed endwise into position upon the form slugs.

the rule receiving openings spaced to produce the desired effect and after theoseveral stantially in the plane of the level top surface of the form.

In practising my method of ruling type forms'I provideslugs which have rule receiving openings suitably spaced to receive ,the desired number of rules or to receive rules which may be placed in desired relation to the printing type carried by the That is the form is provided with slugs are arranged in position with the rule receiving openlngs 1n alinement'the rules are and are retained in position by the overhanging side walls of the several rule receiving openings provided in the projections which rise above the level top surface of the form.-

Having thus described my invention 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

' 1. A ruled type form, which comprises a plurality of lino-type slugs, certain of which are provided with longitudinally disposed type-high ribs and others of which are provided with less than typehigh integral proed es and se )arable line )rintin rules arranged at right angles to the longitudinal printing ribsgand held in transverse openings provided t zrefor in said printing and nonprinting ribs, the side walls of said openings overhanging the bases of the rules. i

3. A quad-high'slug having a longitudinal rib on its upper edge, the upper surfaceof the rib being adapted to be below the printing surface of the type form in which the slug is used said rib being provided with transverse holes to receive a lino-tabler rule, the walls of said opening projecting over the base of the rule.

4. A quad-high linotype slug having a longitudinal rib on its upper edge'the combined height of the slug and rib being less than type height, said rib being provided with transverse openings adapted to receive and to hold lino-table! rules.

- 5. A quad-high linotype slug having a longitudinal rib on its upper edge, the combined height of the slug and rib being less than type height, said rib being provided with transverse openings extending from its upper edge to its base and said openings being constricted at their upper edges to hold linotabler rules.

6. A linotype printing slug provided with a rigid projection on its upper edge, said projection having a transverse opening adapted to receive and to hold a printing rule of triangular cross section, thesides of the opening projecting over the inclined sides of the rule, as and for the purposespecified. j j Y 7. A system of ruling type forms which 'comprises the combination with two slugs of'a ruling member of less than type height and having a base which is wider than its printing edgf, the slugs being provided with openings between rigid projections to receive the printing member, the side walls of the openings projecting over the base of the rule as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 23rd day of September, 191%,

in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ASHTON G. STEVENSON.

Witnesses:

NATHAN J. SACHS, JULIA R. Born. 

